| sebastian_dangerfield |
03-02-2005 04:57 PM |
Vocabulary Word For The Day
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Okay, you smarty-pantses might already know this one, but I had to look it up as a result of a personal e-mail today. Fucking Harvard people with their fifty cent words in normal conversation.
erstwhile:
adv.
In the past; at a former time; formerly.
adj.
Former: our erstwhile companions.
Used in a sentence: I'm sorry that I will be dateless, having recently moved out of my own condo (temporarily) while my erstwhile girlfriend finds a new home.
Fucking Harvard people. What is so wrong with ex-girlfriend? Fuck you, Hank.
ncs
HVCC '91, Correspondence Law Degree '95
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"How do you tell a Harvard man from the rest?
He's gets out of the shower to take a piss."
Yes, I'm rehashing old bits, but I love that one. My favorite horseshit words are:
sanguine
a fortiori
inter alia
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